Edmonton Oilers (7-7-4, 18 pts) @ Dallas Stars (10-8-2, 22 pts)
7:30 PM CT
American Airlines Center, Dallas, Texas
The Oilers– 13th in the West
Rankings:
Goals – 27th, Goals Against – 15th, Power Play – 5th, Penalty Kill – 4th
Things have not been great for the Oilers this month. Edmonton has only won three out of 11 games in February and has seen their offense sputter throughout the month.
The Oilers have scored three or more goals only twice this month (not coincidently winning each time) and has seen the defense give up at least three goals in eight of the 11 games. A young team that was supposed to be exciting hasn’t quite come to fruition.
Nikolai Khabibulin has started three of the past four games for the Oilers but that’s not going to be the case tonight. He’s on the IR now with some kind of lower body injury so that means Devan Dubnyk in net tonight.
Dubnyk has started only two games since Edmonton last played Dallas and things haven’t gon...
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Stars of Big D:
PLAYERS:
Nikolai Khabibulin,
Devan Dubnyk,
Sam Gagner,
Ales Hemsky,
Ryan Nugent-Hopkins,
Taylor Hall,
Teemu Hartikainen,
Anton Lander,
Shawn Horcoff,
Michael Ryder,
Kari Lehtonen,
Cody Eakin,
Antoine Roussel,
Reilly Smith,
Ray Whitney,
Aaron Rome,
Philip Larsen
TEAMS: Edmonton Oilers, Dallas Stars, Colorado Avalanche, Minnesota Wild, Montreal Canadiens
TEAMS: Edmonton Oilers, Dallas Stars, Colorado Avalanche, Minnesota Wild, Montreal Canadiens
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